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American Self-Making and Self-Help - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Cpt. John Brown = Jesus Christ
        I am here to plead his cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character,--his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.
- - - - Anne Hutchison
        Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan spiritual advisor, and one of her big contributions was how she went against and fought the typical Puritan values. Hutchison was brought to court for three charges, breaking the Fifth Commandment by dishonoring the fathers of the Commonwealth; improperly holding meetings in her home (preaching to men and women at her house); and defaming authorized ministers (speaking ill of Puritan ministers "works vs. grace). Her rebuttals called out hypocrisies that were made against her for her gender. It is clear that women did not share the same rights/positions that men do
      - Mary Rowlandson
        Mary Rowlandson was an American colonist who was captured by Native Americans and was later released form captivity. Six years after the events of her capture Rowlandson wrote a book, titled The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and spoke on her experiences while in captivity.
    - - John Edwards
        He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but he can most easily do it. Sometimes an earthly prince meets with a great deal of difficulty to subdue a rebel that has found means[Pg 80] to fortify himself, and has made himself strong by the number of his followers. But it is not so with God. There is no fortress that is any defence against the power of God. Though hand join in hand, and vast multitudes of God’s enemies combine and associate themselves, they are easily broken in pieces: they are as great heaps of light chaff before the whirlwind; or large quantities of dry stubble before devouring flames. We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so ’tis easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by; thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell. What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down!
      - Theodore Roosevelt: The American Boy
        Of course what we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man. Now, the chances are strong that he won't be much of a man unless he is a good deal of a boy. He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He must work hard and play hard. He must be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able to hold his own under all circumstances and against all comers. It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of American man of whom America can be really proud.
- - - - Martim Luther King Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
        While in jail for participating in the Birmingham desegregation campaign, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began writing what became known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on April 16, 1963. In this rare and direct response to his critics, Dr. King defended the actions of the Birmingham protesters, questioned the role of white moderates and southern faith leaders in the civil rights movement, and expounded on the intended consequences of non-violent resistance. Although initially addressed to eight “liberal” Alabama clergymen, the letter gained a wider audience once published in the June editions of Christian Century magazine and Atlantic Monthly. In his letter, Dr. King insisted on the need for immediate racial change and the absolute necessity of protest until change occurred. He called on leaders in the southern church to actively support social reform. As you read the excerpts below, notice King’s focus on the role of the individual in combating racism and the legal segregation that then existed in the South.